Education Concerns Over Exam Based Learning In Schools
Learning is vital no matter who you are and it is the backbone of society. If we don’t understand more about ourselves, our lives and the lives of others around us, then how can we ever put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. In recent years schools have been put under vast amounts of pressure to reach government education goals and this has received critism from both teachers and parents. It appears that rather than developing important life skills that will help them grow into young adults, schools are teaching children how to pass exams.
A typical problem with examination based teaching is that pupils who have had to move schools a number of times often get left behind as a result. This trend occurs a lot in children who come from an army background as their parents are often sent to different military bases at both home and overseas. If you trace the military genealogy of families that have a history of service in the military, you will often see that the educational performance of the individual members of the family is typically poor unless they have spent their exam years at one school.
There is nothing wrong with this as long as the children are learning about the subject as well but while many pupils may know the correct answer, is there any point if they can’t understand it? The real concern however is coming from the business sector who have said that the undergraduate students that they are getting straight out of University don’t have the required skills for the working environment and basic concepts suc as their life skills aren’t developed enough. The problem with this is that employers are limiting the number of inexperienced candidates in favour of employees with experience as these candidates are usually multi skilled and won’t need additional training like presentation skills training.
Those of you have a learning disability such as dyslexia and go to a specialist independent school then you might have an advantage over other school children. This sounds strange but the reason for this is that independent schools can set their own syllabus and teach different areas of subjects. As well as this it means that student’s individual learning skills can be catered for so kids with dyslexia can be taught in a way that suits the individual rather than the majority. This type of teaching can usually only be found in private dyslexia schools but it allows dyslexic students to learn and understand more.
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